Tuesday, November 15, 2016

As dual citizen I witnessed the American Election Day and
today I received the ballot for a very important Italian Referendum about our Constitution
Changes to made.

Despite one fact being done and the other yet to do, both of
them have triggered my curiosity.

What happen when change is at work… but the results are not
what expected? How do we face with not wanted changes? Denying it? Protesting? (and
to who and for what?). Pretending nothing happened it’s allowed? Or just we get
caught in depression and dark thought? Blaming others? Whining all day long?

We believe that change is ours breathe, it just goes on and
on. There is no need to think about it or, worse, to avoid it.

However, like on these days to me, change seems going a
little further: toward sides I don’t like and I won’t. Of course the change
running in a political arena is not the same of the one you have to ride on
your life.

But how we can transform these very common attitudes in a
positive and more useful way? Oh that’s very interesting thing to coach around!

Collecting facts around the change. Refuse the odd analysis.
Change your glasses: what did not you see? What other people will describe it? What
do they say to explain themselves? Try to walk in their shoes can help.

Working on your emotions. How do you feel? How do you show
these feeling? Accepting all dark and depressing emotion can help too.

For sure one last work we need to cope with: how you deal
with impotence? How stay in a cage like an animal on the zoo, without losing
your soul? How you restore your energy to fuel hope?

That’s remind me of the way Clowns are used to cope with
failure. Playing it again and again until poetry, irony and imagination combined
together will make you and your audience crying with no knowledge about the
reason.

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

“Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.”Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share Without Knowing)

Change is like breathing. It happens. You don’t need to do
anything. It is a life process.
If you are alive you are breathing and change. Every second. Since I began to
write this little article all of my cells changed several time. Literally I’m a
different person since I start writing.

Tranformational mask - Vancouver BC - Anthropological Museum

Of course you can hold your breath, for a while but in a few
second you go … fiuuuuu! Change is kind of the same. You can hold, especially
the change you don’t want to have, for a while, but after that again,
whoahhhhhhh! It goes.

Like human living been we are set to change a little bit
every second all along our life. A kid that I was it is very different from the
adult that I’m now. Different dimension, weight, tall, brain. A human body that
is not changing anymore is gone, death.

Everything in me is different any moment and however it is still myself.(that
is another story!, please wait for another telling)

Now if change is like that, why we are so afraid of it? Why
we spend so much time and energy to avoid that? Why every change in our life is
giving us so much intense emotions, anxiety and trouble? Why is so difficult to
flow in this river and enjoy the current?